The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-13
Religious Notes.

Evangelist Thomas Harrison is in revival
work at Chestnutrstreet, Providence, r. l.
The missionary work of the Religious Tract
Society of London is carried on in I86 different
languages.
Rev. D. Kemmerer of Wooster Ohio, is said
to be the oldest Reformed minister in the world.
He is eighty-six years old, but breaches regu-
lariy every Sunday.
The Salvation army, of England, recently sent
: fifty missionaries at to India. Twenty-Five
dollars is all that is allotted to each one for sup
port after arrival on the field
Joseph Parker: 1t is but a short gray day we
are together. There ought not to be time for
Rtrife, and debate, and harshness. and bitter
ness. The hand is already laid on the rope that
shall ring the knell.
The memorial of st. Paul which some Ameri-
cans propose to set up in his native city of
Iarsus will take the practical shape of a train
ing-school for orphans, of which there are a
great many in Cilicia.
Archbishop Hess of Milwaukee thinks there
are 100000 Roman Catholics in the United
States, of whom 5000, 900 are Germans. Of the
eleven archbishops and sixty bishops, however,
only one archbishop, DR.. Heiss himself, and
eleven bishops are Germans.
The Independent says of Col. Ingersolrs reply
. TO DR. Henry NJ. Field in the North American
Review: 1.-The paper is the brilliant, rafting
force of an advocate who keeps atheism
hand to amuse him when Guiteau star-route
and Anarchist cases run low
The gospel, says Dr. Arthur Person is two
edged sword, having law side and grace
on the other, but they meet in point. AS the
sword loses its value, to degree, if either edge
be dulled so the gospel is shorn of its power if
OILY part OF the message IS gwen.
F. W. Farrar No man ever yet asked to be,
as the days pass by more and more noble, and
sweet, and pure, and heavenly minded; no man
ever yet prayed that the evil spirits of hatred
and pride, and passion, and worldliness might
be cast out of his soul, without his petition be-
ing granted and granted to the letter.
Says the Central: The following told of an
old Kentucky Methodist preacher by Dr. S. A.
Steel, is worth passing around an illustration
of the spirit of Methodist fathers: Il Happened
to be near him when his appointment was read
out. and asked him how it suited him. Broth
, er, it is not what expected, but I'll make it
suit, was his ready reply.
Rev George Greenfen lately returned from
athe Congo, reports christianity spreading even
where missionaries had not labored AS he ap-
, preached one town in which no Baptist mission
ary had ever labored, he saw band of native
evangelists coming out of it to preach the gospel
to their native brethren, and that town, few
years ago, was sunk in heathenism."
At the late English Church Congress-, Rev.
Canon Isaac Taylor, LII. D., said that over a
large portion of the world IslaTnsm as a religion
ais more successful than Christianity; and that it
; lis the most powerful total abstinence associa-
tion in the world, whereas the extension of Eu-
ropean trade means the extension of drunkenness
and vice. and the degradation of the people,
1t has been decided that the meetings of the
Pan Presbyterian Council, to be held next year
in London, will be in Exeter Hall The Rev.
Donald Macleod, of Belgravia. and the Rev r.
NJ Thornton, of Camden road, have been ap-
pointed general secretaries. Subcommittee
have been appointed to assist in making the pre-
inlinary arrangements. A guarantee fund is
to be raised.
The Congregationalists at Naugatuck Conn,
are erecting parish house that will have
twenty-four rooms, besides hall. cloak-rooms,
and closets. On the first floor will be the as
sembly- room, the reception-room. the Sunday
school library, and seven class-rooms and on
the second floor eight class-rooms, reading
rooms, kitchen. dinning room, and coat and
cloak-rooms. On the third floor will be the
pastors study and room for gymnasium.
AS DR.. Watts was standing one day in coffee
house. he observed gentleman looking very
steadfastly at him. and presently heard him say
to his friend, THAT is DIR. Watts 1T isl'
piled the other then he is very little fellow!7
On which DR.. Watts turned to them and said:
Were 1 so tall to reach the sky,
Or grasp the ocean with span,
would be measured by my soul
The minds the standard Of the man.
The bishops of Lichfeld and Salisbury, who,
under instructions from the Archbishop of Cam
terbury, went to visit the old Catholic leaders
on The continent, have been at Bonn, where
they were joined by Bishop Reinkens. DR.. Rit-
ter Won Schultz and others. 1t is said that the
conference has resulted in such an agreement of
views touching the constitutions and creeds of
their respective churches to render intercona-
mrnion probable. The Maria Cultus has been
brought down to about the same level as that
which prevails among Anglican congregations
The Mary days remain, but they have become
festivals of the lower rank. After leaving Bonn
the bishops were to visit Switzerland Munich
lnd Vienna.